Shen Zhongxi is a member of the staff, he has lived in Yangzhou for a long time, once in the wine shop met a maritime merchant surnamed Lin, I heard that they went to the sea to do business in the South Seas, the income is huge, very yearning.
So, he took out thousands of gold, hoping that his son and nephew could cooperate with maritime merchants and start a business together.
Shen Wujiang's son Shen Xiang, twenty-three years old, has an easy-going personality, a tall figure, bright eyes, and has a high attainment for **, and is deeply loved by everyone.
Not long after they boarded the ship, the ship lifted anchor and left the harbor and sailed out into the vast sea.
However, it didn't take long for them to encounter strong winds and waves. The big ship swayed in the wind and waves, like a small leaf.
Shen Xiang had never been to sea, and he felt very unwell when he encountered such a big wind and waves, so he could only lie in bed and rest.
At this moment, he suddenly heard someone whisper in his ear: "The flowers in the Falling Flower Island are falling." Although Shen Xiang doesn't like to read and doesn't have a deep understanding of poetry, he still tries hard to get on with this pair.
When he awoke, he told his companions about the experience in his dream. Although these maritime merchants have been to the sea many times and have been to many places, they do not know the name "Luohua Island".
One of them, who was good at reciting poetry, said to Shen Xiang with a smile: "You can say that the willows on the weeping willow embankment are low, although the poem is very good, but the young students are shallow in learning, and they can still be right." ”
Shen Xiang took this sentence to heart, but life is always full of uncertainties. Soon after, Shen Xiang died not long after he was bedridden due to unaccustomed water and unclean food, and the ship lacked medical resources.
His cousin felt guilty that he had failed his uncle's expectations, so he found a thin-skinned coffin to bury him, and then transported him back to his hometown for burial after returning to the Central Plains.
However, Shen Xiang did not know that he had died, and only felt that his body had become lighter, so he imitated Liezi to ride against the wind and soar freely on the sea.
He remembered that someone in his dream had mentioned a Falling Flower Island, and believed that the scenery there must be unique, so he decided to go to the first place.
He harnessed the wind, and soon saw a fairy mountain floating on the sea, the shape was like an inverted bowl, colorful, like a freshly woven Shu brocade, the fragrance on the mountain was fragrant, which made people feel refreshed.
Shen Xiang descended to the mountain, walked along the path, walked west, and found a place that looked like a mountain pass, and inside was a flat and wide avenue, and the road was covered with thick fallen flowers, and it seemed to lie on a soft mattress when stepping on it.
He looked around, intoxicated by the exotic scenery, and suddenly heard a soft reprimand: "What a madman, this is the habitat of immortals, not a place for ordinary people like you to play at will!" ”
He followed the prestige, and saw a young girl who was only twenty-eight years old, with a colorful body, as if wearing a brocade robe, holding a small bamboo basket filled with all kinds of fresh flowers, slowly walking out from behind the tree.
Shen Xiang immediately knelt down and saluted, and confessed his origins. The girl sneered, "You despicable businessman, how can you be qualified to step into this fairyland?
But maybe you have a pair here, no one can match it, if you can make a match, you can stay here, otherwise, please leave quickly. ”
Shen Xiang was attracted by the girl's beauty and beauty, and forgot for a moment that he didn't understand literature and science, so he asked the girl to ask the question. The girl read a poem, and Shen Xiang was just right to it. The girl was overjoyed and invited Shen Xiang to go home with her.
The girl's house is surrounded by a fence made of flowers, and there are two huge trees at the door, and the branches and leaves are intertwined, which is magnificent. The girl let Shen Xiang into the house, and the tables and beds inside were all made of colored stones, and they were covered with fallen flowers.
Looking up, the roof is covered with tree trunks, like a living room built by heaven. The girl asked Shen Xiang to sit down for a while, and she went to prepare food. She poured the flowers from the bamboo basket into a jade kettle and began to cook.
Soon, she brought a bowl of porridge with flowers. Shen Xiang took a bite and found the food very strange, but he still mustered up the courage to taste it. He found that this porridge was sweet and sweet, and it was even better than the delicious taste in the world.
The girl offered another kind of wine called "Hundred Flowers Drunk", and Shen Xiang took a sip of it, feeling refreshed and fluttering. Shen Xiang thought that the wine he drank made him immortal, but in fact he had died and become a ghost.
The girl was very surprised when she found out that Shen Xiang was not human. She asked Shen Xiang why he only had a body shape and no inner substance, and Shen Xiang was also looking for an answer. He suddenly realized that he was dead, his family was still at home, and his heart was filled with pain and sorrow.
The girl comforted him and told him that it was better to become a ghost than to become a **. She took out a jade bottle containing a pool of clear water.
She poured Shen Xiang's whole body with a clear spring, which is called the "essence of a hundred flowers", which can turn people into immortals and ghosts.
Shen Xiang ate the Hundred Flowers Drunk and received the bath of the Hundred Flowers Essence, and his body began to change. He's getting more real and stronger.
He and the girl became husband and wife, and they would go to collect the sap of flowers every day, pick flowers and eat them, and live a free life.
Under the careful teaching of the girl, Shen Xiang learned a lot of strange magic, such as real flying, they flew from the east coast of the East China Sea to the west coast of the North Sea, shuttling between the fairy mountains, looking for immortals and aliens.
However, Shen Xiang is just an ordinary person after all, he has parents, brothers, relatives and friends, especially his old father, I don't know how he is doing recently, the more he lives a fairy-like life, the more he misses his old father, this is a great pain in the world.
His wife, who was also very smart, saw that he was frowning and asked him why. Shen Xiang said to the girl: "Thanks to you, I have been able to be resurrected, and it is my life's wish to be able to be with you forever and be with you for a long time, but I have two parents and a younger brother to raise, I want to go home and see, do you agree?" ”
The woman pondered for a while and said, "You are very filial, I can't stop you, but after you left, you became a ghost, and this time you came back and became a human, who will believe you?" ”
Shen Xiang said: "I will give it a try and will be back soon." The woman sighed and said, "You are originally an ordinary person, the six roots are impure, and you cannot attain the Great Dao, only by solving these causes and effects can you obtain immortality!" ”
So, she agreed to his request. At parting, the maiden gave him a glass of wine and told him, "If you are hungry, drink the wine in it, and do not eat the food of the world, for if you eat it, you will lose your spirits and lose your vitality; When you're done, be sure to return right away, and remember not to stay too long. ”
So, Shen Xiang agreed with her for a month, and he cast the magic of flying, and he crossed the vast sea as if he were on flat ground, and soon returned to his home in Yangzhou, Middle-earth.
When he returned home, he found that he had been on the island for ten years, and his father, Shin Joong-seok, had become old and faltering; His younger brothers have all started families and live separately.
Seeing Shen Xiang, people who knew him thought that he had met a ghost and fled in a panic. Only his old father Shin Joong-seok hugged him and cried: "Son, I asked you to leave so that your soul returned to another country, and you won't come back to take revenge!" ”
Shen Xiang said that he was a human being, but everyone didn't believe him, his cousin said that you died of illness, and the year before last he brought your coffin back and buried it in the ancestral grave, you said that you were a living person, who would believe it?
Shen Xiang had no choice but to tell them about his experience, and everyone was surprised after hearing it. There is an old man named Wu in the same village, who also went to the sea to do business when he was young, heard the legend of Luohua Island, and saw this island from afar on a sea boat.
He confirmed Shen Xiang's statement: "There is indeed this island, in the extreme south of the East China Sea, the smoke and waves are vast and difficult to find, it is said that only those who are destined can find it, I once passed there, I heard that it is a place where the gods live, there is no road, and I still remember the scenery of the island." ”
As soon as everyone heard it, they believed Shen Xiang's words. In this way, Shen Xiang lived at home, and did his filial piety in front of his old father, but everyone was surprised to find that these days he did not drink or eat, but only drank the fine wine he brought.
His old father had a stroke and couldn't speak, and many doctors couldn't cure him, so Shen Xiang took out his wine glass and poured a glass for his old father to drink, and his old father recovered that night, looking ten years younger, with black hair and flexible legs, which surprised the villagers.
For this reason, the villagers were attracted by the wine jugs he brought, and they came to seek medical advice, resulting in a rush of traffic in front of the Shen Mansion, and even the local prefect visited in person.
Shen Xiang sighed and sighed: "It seems that people value interests more, and I may not have a relationship with this world." After saying that, he left the jade pot in the Shen Mansion and floated away.
Although Shen Xiang left Middle-earth, he left many legends about him in the local area, and some people even built temples to worship him.